Astronauts perform so many out-of-this-world experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). They use a specially-built ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa ... ice and almost totally devoid of civilization.) For astronomy, a lack of civilization is generally considered ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly. These multi-million-dollar, decade-long experiments might expose the answer to how dark energy has shaped our universe or how it may yet destroy the universe (or ...

Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, the highly competitive grant will establish the ...

Today–with a few notable exceptions–big discoveries require big science and big equipment ... your computers with SETI and protein folding experiments. But that isn’t as satisfying as ...

Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that the velocities of galaxies in the Coma Cluster were too high to be maintained ...

This book provides an up-to-date account of the precise experiments that can be performed in a terrestrial ... experimentation at the close of a century." George T. Gillies, Science "Of value to ...

View a slide show of the research flume during experiments. * Research flumes are used to simulate river flow processes in this type of controlled setting. The National Science Foundation provided ...

Oliver Gould, Study Lead Theorist and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy ... and Exotics Detector at the ...

The College of Natural Sciences will host several science demos and hands-on experiments: Safe telescope views of the sun and other astronomy fun from McDonald Observatory Hands-on computer science ...

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have ...

Astronomy enthusiasts and curious minds alike will have the opportunity to gaze at the stars and explore the wonders of our ...